Sentences with phrase «to make a political point»

Indeed, these demands were less about actual policy than about making a political point.
Remember the prime aim here is to get you the money, not make a political point.
You seem to be more concerned with making a political point than with getting the question author the answer they are looking for.
You know, this was something that came up originally as a means to make a political point when there were substantive discussions around Senate reform a long, long time ago.
I'm not a fan of piggybacking on such achievements in favour of making political points, but there are clear lessons to be learned from it.
You are going to discuss religious choices made by a child and influenced by adults to try to make political points for Obama?
No, Jesus, when pressed to use his authority to make a political point said simply, «Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.»
It's the first time he's stopped Brown making a political point in PMQs, I think.
As promised, President Obama is taking Republicans to task in his Buffalo speech on the economy, accusing them of being too focused on making political points than collaborating with Democrats to help create jobs and speed the recovery.
«And usually towards the end of the class they would swap papers and then they would sort of score jolly points off each other making political points.
The way that Gillo Pontecorvo makes his political points without resorting to propaganda — while always being truthful to the characters — is utterly brilliant.
But in the rush to make political points post-Gomery, this small detail seems to have escaped everyone.
What I find refreshing about the guide is its return to a focus on more or less classical civil disobedience, which is to say making a political point by doing what the powers - that - be don't want you to do without necessarily breaking the criminal law — and being willing to accept the consequences of that behaviour as part of the protest.
Rare Pepe cards are a creative, funny, and unique to make a political point while also serving as a fun item to trade.
«It's a sad commentary that Governor Cuomo cares more about making a political point than he does about the well being of these workers and their families, even at the expense of Thruway and Canal operations,» Donohue said.
But when they start instructing priests to make political points in their homilies for Mass, which is starting to happen, I refuse communion, stop all donations, and have my name struck from he parish rolls.
Aldermen, more intent on making political points, seemed to have no clue.
and no im not making a political point, its just an ovservation of the way things have gone and the way in which the previous torie govenment got wiped out
They wanted to make the political point that all savings are safe.
I am not here trying to make a political point.
To think that this group or any other would think that a military funeral is a place to make their political point is not only illogical, it is frankly disgusting.
While I commend Beck for advocating charity (even if he does it mostly to make political points), if people like Beck and Santorum are such devout, outspoken Christians, why were they not vocal in support of the long - standing Vatican and Christian position that the War in Iraq violated Christian Just War Criteria from the beginning, and vociferously denounce the draft - dodging, war profiteers and religious hypocrites who started it?
We know that we should acknowledge America's dark history of slavery — but when we're trying to make a political point?
While I commend Beck for advocating charity (even if he does it mosty to make political points), if people like Beck and Santorum are such devout, outspoken Christians, why were they not vocal in support of the long - standing Vatican and Chrisitan position that the War in Iraq violated Christian Just War Criteria from the beginning, and vociferously denounce the draft - dodging, war profiteers and religious hypocrites who started it?
Back in the day, a «sit - in» meant just that — taking over a physical space with physical bodies to make a political point.
Most people don't care enough about politics to go see them and you'll lose half of those who do if you make any political point whatsoever.
Video often evokes a stronger emotional reaction than text or still images alone, making it a powerful way to tell stories or make a political point, but online video isn't television — the kinds of content that succeeds can be quite different, with authenticity (that word again!)
Activists from Japan, China and Taiwan have all tried to sail to the islands to make a political point
If you haven't been following the recent saga of the online crusade to distribute the magic code used to crack hi - def video disks, you've missed a fascinating example of distributed, uncoordinated citizen action to make a political point.
When it comes to saving these steelworks, we should try and be bigger than making political points
So are you actually admitting that you asked this question to make a political point, rather than to get an answer?
First, it's a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.
The same problem of partisanship clouding important cross-party issues might be identified in the reaction to the use of two misguided references to make political points.
Video often evokes a stronger emotional reaction than text or still images alone, making it a powerful way to tell stories or make a political point, but online video isn't television — the kinds of content that succeeds can be quite different, with authenticity and topic typically more important than polished visuals.
Hilary Benn, Labour's shadow foreign secretary, said it was a «shameful and cowardly poster», while Nicky Morgan, the Conservative education secretary, said: «Using the tragic deaths of innocent people to make a political point is simply shameful.»
She later stated: «Using the tragic deaths of innocent people to make a political point is simply shameful.
It is also that ministers are using statistics they know (or ought to know) are unreliable in order to make a political point.
And I do not believe that the EU's leaders will seriously tell German exporters, French farmers, Spanish fishermen, the young unemployed of the Eurozone, and millions of others, that they want to make them poorer, just to punish Britain and make a political point.
CSEA has offered the governor numerous alternatives to save even more money but the governor is only interested in ideas that inflict pain on the work force to make a political point.
But a few people decided this was the perfect opportunity to use the tragedy to make a political point.
Not trying to make a political point but imagine Fox News or Breitbart pulled into the extremes.
It's a sad commentary that Governor Cuomo cares more about making a political point than he does about the well being of these workers and their families, even at the expense of Thruway and Canal operations.»
I find this sardonically amusing, considering we're living in a time where innocent people are being beheaded to make a political point.
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